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What to have for lunch — grilled hamburgers or cafeteria food? It was an easy choice for the culinary arts students at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School on Tuesday late morning before they started prep work for a dinner function that night. Ethan Himmel flipped burgers in the kitchen while Carlos Guzman toasted bread in the convection oven and got out cheese.
At a special town meeting Tuesday, Oak Bluffs voters agreed to deep cuts to balance the budget for the current fiscal year. Voters slashed $249,666 from the budget; the majority of the cuts came from leaving positions unfilled including the town finance director, two teaching aide positions at the Oak Bluffs School, the zoning board of appeals administrator and a heavy equipment operator. A town library reference librarian position was saved after library trustees offered to take $12,000 from other places in their budget.
Classes will be cancelled at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Wednesday due to the death of Joy Flanders, a longtime teacher at the high school who died over the weekend after a lengthy illness.
A service for Ms. Flanders will be held at the Abel’s Hill Cemetery in Chilmark followed by a reception at the Chilmark Community Center. Ms. Flanders had taught special education at the high school for 10 years and had been a teacher in the Vineyard public school system for 27 years.
Tara and Daniel Whiting have withdrawn their application to the West Tisbury historic district commission to demolish the Old Parsonage house.
On Wednesday historic district commission chairman Sean Conley said his board had received an e-mail from the Whitings earlier in the week effectively ending their pursuit of a demolition permit.
“It looks like Tara is pursuing something else besides demolition, which is great,” Mr. Conley said.
Winter Break Kid Camp
The February school vacation is coming up and for those wondering what to do with all those rambunctious kids at home all day, there is hope.
The YMCA is offering a weeklong vacation camp, Feb. 28 through March 4, for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The day camp will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and includes lots of swimming, arts and crafts and games.
For more details and to register, call Apryl Anastacio at 508-696-7171, extension 105.
More than 200 Martha’s Vineyard high school students were winners this past weekend at the 12th annual high school science fair. Though prizes were awarded only for the top exhibitors, every student walked away knowing science can be both fun and rewarding.